My cold season grass has browned in most spots although I have a lot of weeds I let grow for the chickens and they're all green...stuff like plantain and clover. So at least the majority of the yard looks green. Out front is a little more dire, but my areas that I plugged with zoysia are going wild...lots of runners everywhere and it's very green. In another 5 years it'll probably look really good out there. It's hard to kill that stuff and it outcompetes most weeds. My thick area of it out back has a little white clover growing through it, but that's fine since it's probably fixing nitrogen into the soil for it.